A spy at the heart of Nato may have passed secrets on the US missile shield and cyber-defence to Russian Intelligence, it has emerged.

Herman Simm, 61, an Estonian defence ministry official who was arrested in September, was responsible for handling all of his country's classified information at Nato, giving him access to every top-secret graded document from other alliance countries.

He was recruited by the Russians in the late 1980s and has been charged in Estonia with supplying information to a foreign power.

The past efforts of the Soviet KGB are still bearing fruit and ‘former' KGB spies are still in the business:

"There was a preceding effort in denial of [internet] service ... by let us say sympathizers to the Russian side of the dispute. That was a prelude and an adjunct to the military attack where Russian troops entered Georgia," Chertoff said. "I think this is a harbinger of what's to come, the use of cyber attacks -- preparing the battlefield, so to speak."

As Russian spies continue to prepare the battlefield, and have success doing it, Putin, while honoring the past, is most surely honoring the future.

A spy at the heart of Nato may have passed secrets on the US missile shield and cyber-defence to Russian Intelligence, it has emerged.

Herman Simm, 61, an Estonian defence ministry official who was arrested in September, was responsible for handling all of his country's classified information at Nato, giving him access to every top-secret graded document from other alliance countries.

He was recruited by the Russians in the late 1980s and has been charged in Estonia with supplying information to a foreign power.

The past efforts of the Soviet KGB are still bearing fruit and ‘former' KGB spies are still in the business:

"There was a preceding effort in denial of [internet] service ... by let us say sympathizers to the Russian side of the dispute. That was a prelude and an adjunct to the military attack where Russian troops entered Georgia," Chertoff said. "I think this is a harbinger of what's to come, the use of cyber attacks -- preparing the battlefield, so to speak."

As Russian spies continue to prepare the battlefield, and have success doing it, Putin, while honoring the past, is most surely honoring the future.